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The Big Sleep (1946 film) Quotes

The Big Sleep (1946 film) is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . The Big Sleep ended its run in 1970.

It features Howard Hawks as producer, Max Steiner in charge of musical score, and Sidney Hickox as head of cinematography.

The Big Sleep (1946 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Big Sleep (1946 film) is Plain list The Big Sleep (1946 film) is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe, Lauren Bacall as Vivian, Humphrey Bogart as Marlowe, Martha Vickers as Carmen Sternwood, John Ridgely as Eddie Mars, Charles Waldron as General Sternwood, Charles D. Brown as Norris, Sonia Darrin as Agnes Lowzier, Bob Steele as Lash Canino, Elisha Cook, Jr. as Harry Jones, and Regis Toomey as Chief Inspector Bernie Ohls.

The Big Sleep (1946 film) Quotes

Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe

  • (Taxi Driver) "If you can use me again sometime, call this number."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Day and night?"
  • (Taxi Driver) "Uh, night's better. I work during the day."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Did I hurt you much, sugar?"
  • (Sonia Darrin) "You and every other man I've ever met."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "You ought to wean her, she's old enough."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "I can do what? Where? Oh no, I wouldn't like that. Neither would my daughter."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "I hope the sergeant never traces that call."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Hmm."
  • (Charles Waldron) "What does that mean?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "It means, hmm."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "How bout a cup of coffee, Bernie?"
  • (Regis Toomey) "Uh Uhh. I can't afford to be seen with you."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "How'd you happen to pick out this place?"
  • (Lauren Bacall) "Maybe I wanted to hold your hand."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Oh, that can be arranged."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Let me do the talking, angel. I don't know yet what I'm going to tell them. It'll be pretty close to the truth."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Bernie? This is Marlowe. I got some more red points for you."
  • (Regis Toomey) "Who is it this time?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Hello, let me talk to Mr. Mars."
  • (John Ridgely) "This is Mars."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Oh, hello Eddie. This is Marlowe."
  • (John Ridgely) "Marlowe?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Yeah, Marlowe. Or, what's left of him."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Somebody's always giving me guns."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Thanks for the drink, General."
  • (Charles Waldron) "I enjoyed your drink as much as you did, sir."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Get up angel, you look like a Pekingese."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "What can I do for you? I can do what? Where? Oh, no, I wouldn't like that. Neither would my daughter."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "You know what he'll do when he comes back? Beat my teeth out, then kick me in the stomach for mumbling."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "You made a mistake. Mrs. Rutledge didn't want to see me."
  • (Charles D. Brown) "I'm sorry, sir. I make many mistakes."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "You the guy that's been tailing me?"
  • (Elisha Cook, Jr.) "Yeah, the name's Jones. Harry Jones. I want to see you."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Swell. Did you want to see those guys jump me?"
  • (Elisha Cook, Jr.) "I didn't care one way or the other."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "You could've yelled for help."
  • (Elisha Cook, Jr.) "If a guy's playing a hand, I let him play it. I'm no kibitzer."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "You got brains"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "I know he was a good man at whatever he did. No one was more pleased than I when I heard you had taken him on as your -- whatever he was."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "I collect blondes and bottles too."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "My, my, my. Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You know, you're the second guy I've met today that seems to think a gat in the hand means the world by the tail."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "You wanna tell me now?"
  • (Lauren Bacall) "Tell you what?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "What it is you're trying to find out. You know, it's a funny thing. You're trying to find out what your father hired me to find out, and I'm trying to find out why you want to find out."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "You could go on forever, couldn't you? Anyway it'll give us something to talk about next time we meet."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Among other things."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "You do sell books, hmm?"
  • (Sonia Darrin) "What do those look like, grapefruit?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Well, from here they look like books."

Lauren Bacall as Vivian

  • (Lauren Bacall) "You've forgotten one thing; me."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "What's wrong with you?"
  • (Lauren Bacall) "Nothing you can't fix."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "What will your first step be?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "The usual one."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "I didn't know there was a usual one."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Well sure there is, it comes complete with diagrams on page 47 of how to be a detective in 10 easy lessons correspondent school textbook and uh, your father offered me a drink."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "You must've read another one on how to be a comedian."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "I liked that. I'd like more."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "So you do get up, I was beginning to think you worked in bed like Marcel Proust."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Who's he?"
  • (Lauren Bacall) "You wouldn't know him, a French writer."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Come into my boudoir."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. But I like to see them workout a little first, see if they're front runners or comefrom behind, find out what their hole card is, what makes them run."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Find out mine?"
  • (Lauren Bacall) "I think so."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Go ahead."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "I'd say you don't like to be rated. You like to get out in front, open up a little lead, take a little breather in the backstretch, and then come home free."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "You don't like to be rated yourself."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "I haven't met anyone yet that can do it. Any suggestions?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Well, I can't tell till I've seen you over a distance of ground. You've got a touch of class, but I don't know how, how far you can go."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "A lot depends on who's in the saddle."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "Do you always think you can handle people like, uh, trained seals?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Uh-huh. I usually get away with it too."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "How nice for you."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "So you're a private detective. I didn't know they existed, except in books, or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corridors. My, you're a mess, aren't you?"
  • (Lauren Bacall) "Why did you have to go on?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Too many people told me to stop."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "You go too far, Marlowe."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially when he's walking out of your bedroom."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "So you're a private detective. I didn't know they existed, except in books, or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corridors. My, you're a mess, aren't you?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "I'm not very tall either. Next time I'll come on stilts wear a white tie and carry a tennis racket."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "I doubt if even that will help."

Bob Steele as Lash Canino

  • (Bob Steele) "What's the matter? Haven't you ever seen a gun before? What do you want me to do, count three like they do in the movies?"

Martha Vickers as Carmen Sternwood

  • (Martha Vickers) "You're cute."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "I'm getting cuter every minute."
  • (Martha Vickers) "You're cute. I like you."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Yeah, what you sees nothing, I got a Balinese dancing girl tattooed across my chest."
  • (Martha Vickers) "Is he as cute as you are?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Nobody is."
  • (Martha Vickers) "You're not very tall are you?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Well, I, uh, I try to be."

Charles Waldron as General Sternwood

  • (Charles Waldron) "Do you like orchids?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Not particularly."
  • (Charles Waldron) "Ugh. Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption."
  • (Charles Waldron) "If I seem a bit sinister as a parent, Mr. Marlowe, it's because my hold on life is too slight to include any Victorian hypocrisy. I need hardly add that any man who has lived as I have and indulges for the first time in parenthood at my age deserves all he gets."
  • (Charles Waldron) "I assume they have all the usual vices, besides those they've invented for themselves."
  • (Charles Waldron) "You may smoke, too. I can still enjoy the smell of it. Hum, nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. You're looking, sir, at a very dull survival of a very gaudy life, crippled, paralyzed in both legs, barely I eat and my sleep is so near waking it's hardly worth a name. I seem to exist largely on heat like a new born spider."
  • (Charles Waldron) "How do you like your brandy, sir?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "In a glass."

John Ridgely as Eddie Mars

  • (John Ridgely) "Your story didn't sound quite right."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Oh, that's too bad. You got a better one?"
  • (John Ridgely) "Maybe I can find one."

Sonia Darrin as Agnes Lowzier

  • (Sonia Darrin) "Well, so long, copper. Wish me luck. I got a raw deal."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Hey, your kind always does."
  • (Sonia Darrin) "A half-smart guy, that's what I always draw. Never once a man who's smart all the way around the course. Never once."
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "I hurt you much, sugar?"
  • (Sonia Darrin) "You and every other man I've ever met."
  • (Sonia Darrin) "Is Harry there?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Yeah, yeah, he's here."
  • (Sonia Darrin) "Put him on, will you?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "He can't talk to you."
  • (Sonia Darrin) "Why?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "Because he's dead."

Charles D. Brown as Norris

  • (Charles D. Brown) "Are you attempting to tell me my duties, sir?"
  • (Humphrey Bogart) "No, just having fun trying to guess what they are."

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